Geometries: Prints and Drawings from the Collection

published Apr 21, 2008
ends Aug 18, 2008
Geometries Prints and Drawings from the Collection
This exhibition, which will inaugurate newly opened galleries on the Museum's second floor, will survey the widespread and recurring impulse toward geometric abstraction in modern and contemporary art.

Artists representing various movements and geographical backgrounds will be featured, from the Cubist, Futurist, and Russian avant-garde artists of the 1910s and 1920s with their images of flat, intersecting planes, and floating shapes, through the investigations into reductive form and color by artists associated with Minimalism, Op art, and hard-edge abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s, to artists who have emerged in more recent years and continue to exploit the infinite potential of simple geometries.

Among the highlights will be several recent acquisitions, including major projects and series by Lyubov Popova, Sol Lewitt, and Mark Grotjahn.